The company was set up in November 2008 and has experienced rapid client and financial growth over the last three years through delivering:
through taught sessions, to equip them to become effective, skilled and knowledgeable, shared service practitioners (SSPrac) and shared service architects (SSA) and even gain professional recognition in the public and private sector through the UK’s first Postgraduate Certificate in Shared Services.
through mentoring and in-house taught management programmes, to build shared service architect capabilities within organisations. This will increase their capacity and culture to successfully collaborate with other organisations and reap the full efficiency, improvement and political gains that shared services can deliver.
providing cross-partner taught programmes, and partnership gateway reviews, to build momentum within partnerships and accelerate the shared service journey and successful outcomes.
to equip key individuals in a shared service partnership to sustain its momentum or revive flagging activity.
in partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University. The 6 month, postgrad certificate was launched in October 2010 with a pilot cohort of six students who completed their learning in May 2011 and were presented with their certificates by Sir Merrick Cockell, Chair of the Local Government Association in July 2011.
Over 50 students have now been through the postgraduate certificate.
that can reveal in days, what takes months using post-it notes and Excel spreadsheets during the business plan and service design stages.
the only magazine in the UK focusing purely on shared services and providing regular case studies, reviews and reflections to enhance the learning of shared service practitioners in their work.
...providing links to over 600 shared service case studies, reports, documents and tools. Now possibly the largest library of its kind in the world.
a taught session of essential learning for practitioners before they get 'behind the wheel' of a shared service.
40 tools, techniques and templates for building trust and shared vision in public sector shared services.
50 tools, templates and techniques for drafting the majority of a shared service business case in-house.
essential tools, techniques and templates for accelerating innovative shared services in the public sector.